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J. A. SCRIVEN.

DRAWERS. No. 597,747. Patented Jan. 25, 1898.

INVENTOR f V i d BY (w ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

JEREMIAI-l A. SCRIVEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,747, dated January 25, 1898. Application filed September 24, 1897, Serial No. 652,832. (No model.)

To (I/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, J EEEMIAH A. SCRIVEN, a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Nether Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to nether garments, and has for its object to produce a nether I garment, either drawers or trousers or pants,

wherein the strain upon the seat and crotch portions incident to the wearers sitting down will be compensated for in a very efficient manner.

To this end my invention consists in the construction of nether garments hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of a nether garment embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view thereof, showing the mode of inserting the elastic insertion.

In the drawings, A A are the inelastic back sections of the garment, and A A theinelastic front sections, which sections are united together at their edges a b c in any suitable manner. Interposed between the upper parts of the rear sections A is an elastic insertion d, which is in the form of a strip and extends downward into and through the crotch and upward into the front opening of the crotch, forming the lower edge e of the said opening. In the seat portion of the garment adjacent to and immediately in rear of the crotch-seams f, uniting the front and rear sections, is a narrow elastic insertion g g, which extends up on each side of the elastic strip cl and is in one piece therewith. The elastic insertion g g fills cut-away portions of the rear sections of the garment at this point and is stitched to the edges h of the said cuts or openings, which are preferably V-shaped. By referring to Fig. 1 it will be noticed that the insertion g g extends laterally of the length of the garment in the rear of the crotch portion and is just below the place where the lower parts of the buttocks of a wearer of the drawers terminate and the legs begin.

when the wearer is standing, the undergarment is in the position shown in Fig. 1 and there will be aminimum amount of strain thereon; but when the wearer of the garment sits down the garment will be stretched across his buttocks and the strain will be brought to bear upon the elastic insertions.

The front edges 2' of the front opening of the garment are brought down and sewed to the elastic insertion d at or near its upper front edge e, which constitutes the lower edge of the crotch. The insertions d and g g are described herein as elastic, and by that term I mean to imply that they are more elastic than the remaining portions of the garment, which for the purpose of convenience I herein designate as being inelastic, but such term is to be understood as meaning that the portions referred-to are less elastic than the more elastic insertions and gussets.

I am aware that it is not new to put insertions in the crotch-seams f of the garment. Such, however, I do not claim; but

Nhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An undergarment comprising inelastic front and rear sections secured together at the crotch, an elastic insertion d in the form of a strip uniting the rear sections together and extending downward into and through the crotch and upward into the front opening of the crotch forming the lower edge e of the said opening and a narrow elastic insertion 9 g adjacent to and immediately in rear of the crotch-seam, the said insertion being JEREMIAH A. scRI vEN.

I'Vitnesses:

GEO. MORSE, MAURICE BLooK. 

